Lesson Plan of Punctuation

Lesson Plan of Punctuation

Subject English

Grade IV

Students` Learning Outcomes

• Recognize and apply capitalization to the initial letter of the first word of a sentence, and to the initial letter of the names of people, pets and places.
• Recognize that a sentence ends with some form of punctuation, i.e. full-stop and question mark or an exclamation mark.

Information for Teachers

• Simple sentences are called statements. All statements sentences begin with a capital letter.
• All names of people, places, and pets begin with a capital letter.
• A full-stop (.) is used to end a statement. A full-stop is also called period. E.g.
  • • I see the house.
    • The sun is shining.
    • It is raining.
    • The ground is wet.
• A question mark (?) is used at the end of a question. E.g.
  • • When are we going?
    • Who are you?
    • Do you like drinking tea?
    • Do you like watching movies?
• An exclamation mark (!) is used to show excitement or emotions. E.g.
  • • We won the match!
    • How beautiful this city is!
    • Don`t talk, get out!
    • I`m so mad at her!

Material / Resources

Writing board, chalk/marker, duster, coloured chalk, sentences strips, flashcards (paste them on board), worksheets, textbook

Introduction

• Write your name on the board in small letters. E.g. sofia Malik.
• Make students read the name.
• Now write your name again with the first letter of each as capital. I.e. Sofia Malik.
• Tell the students that all names start with capital letters (show them the roll call register or a familiar story book and point to the names of the characters).
• Recap the concept of capital and small letters with students. (They have learnt this earlier)
• All students write their complete names in their notebooks with first letter of each name as capital. E.g.
  • • Muhammad Ali Chaudhry
    • Muhammad Amin Ghori
    • Abdul Mateen
    • Sarfraz Ahmad
• Ask the students to circle all capital letters in green.

Development

Activity 1

• Tell the students the tip to capitalize all names and the first letter of the sentence.
• Also tell the students that all types of names are capitalized.
• Write a few names of places, pets and people on the board in small letters. E.g.

1. 1. 1. shahid
      2. lahore
      3. mano bile
      4. muhammad ali Jinnah
      5. pakistan
      6. ravi

• Call a few students one by one to the board to make corrections.

Activity 2

• Tell the students that all sentences start with a capital letter.
• All sentences end with a full-stop.
• Write the following sentences on the pieces of paper to make sentence strips.
• Paste them on the board.

1. 1. 1. this is my book
      2. i am happy
      3. she is my friend

• Use green coloured marker to capitalize the first letter of the sentence.
• Use red coloured marker to add a full-stop. (Tell the students that when traffic light turns red, we stop.)
• Call two students to the board and ask them to make corrections.
• Ask all students to copy the sentences and make corrections in the end.
• Ask them to open their textbooks and note/circle full-stops and capital letters.

Activity 3

• Tell the students that some sentences ask for information. They start with a capital letter and end with a question mark.
• Tell them that the WH question words (What, where, when, who, why, how) are given in the beginning of the sentences.

1. 1. 1. Where is my bag?
      2. What is your name?

• Write the following sentences on the pieces of paper and paste them on the board.

1. 1. 1. is this my book
      2. how are you
      3. where is sadia
      4. who is coming
      5. why is he crying

• Use green coloured marker to capitalize the first letter of the sentence.
• Use red coloured marker to add a full-stop.
• Use blue coloured marker to add a question mark.
• Call three students to the board and ask them to make corrections.
• All students copy the sentences and make corrections.

Activity 4

• Check the student`s work of activity 3 and say out loud: ‘Well done Ali! Or you did not finish the work’!
• Paste the flashcard of an exclamation mark on the board.
• Point to the exclamation mark.
• Tell them that this mark shows feelings.
• Ask the students:
  • • What did I feel when I said: Well done Ali! (Possible answer may be as; happiness, joy, excitement),

or

• • • What did me feel when I said: you did no finish the work! (Possible answer may be as; sad, angry)
• Repeat a few more emotional statements and ask the same question.
• (Sample sentences are attached)

• Write the sentences on the board with an exclamation mark.
• Tell students that this exclamation mark shows emotions and feelings. It is also called an excitement mark.
• Ask the students to read the same sentences written on board with emotion and see the exclamation mark given at the end.
• Sample Sentences: (ask students to identify emotion and put exclamation marks:

1. 1. 1. We won the match (excitement, joy)
      2. Oh no. we lost the match (disappointment, sadness)
      3. Hurray it is raining (joy, excitement)
      4. I lost my book (sadness)
      5. Don`t touch it (anger, warning)
      6. Get out (anger)
      7. I am sorry (apology)
      8. Excellent work (joy, appreciation)

Activity 5

• Do the following worksheet with students on the board.
• All students copy the work in their notebooks.

Activity 6

• Write sentences on paper strips, without punctuation marks. (select sentences from the textbook)
• Divide class into two teams.
• Make 2 sets of flashcards of punctuation marks.

• Place one set of punctuation marks in front of each team, (on the floor, board, desks or wherever the team can get to it fast).
• One student from each team will hold and display the sentence strip to the other team.
• Have the student display one sentence strip at a time. The teacher can say, “Ready, Set, Go!”
• One student from each team has to quickly pick the correct punctuation mark and race to the end of the sentence displaying their end mark.
• Then they have to explain why they chose the punctuation mark and also read the sentence.

Sum up / Conclusion

• Recap the concept with short questions about punctuation rules.

Assessment

• Use the follow-up activity to assess student`s progress.
• Worksheet given at the end can be used as class test (you can do it as exercises on board or chart paper).

Follow up

• Each morning when the students arrive in class, have one or two sentences written on the board with no punctuation and /or mistakes.
• Let them correct the mistakes.